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Virtual reality and storytelling

Ben McEwing from Carben returns to the Learning While Working podcast and talks with Robin about the emerging role of VR as a storytelling and learning tool.

Experiences so far with ‘not storyboarding’

What we have learned so far from not storyboarding and instructional designers building resources directly in authoring software

Developing a digital mindset for L&D: The Internet of Things

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a term used to talk about the practice of interconnecting the physical world – with its sensors and actuators – and the digital world.

Developing a digital mindset for L&D: Media-rich experiences

When I was planning this guide I wrestled with adding a section on media because television was invented way back in 1928, and radio in 1895. Media is not new. Then again, television and radio were analogue technologies, not digital.

How to write amazing digital learning resources

A discussion with Clint Smith and Graeme Kirkwood, instructional designers who work with Sprout Labs, and Bruce Ransley, a technical writer we work with. Clint, Graeme and Bruce share their experiences in writing learning programs and offer some valuable advice for designing the best learning experiences.

Trends from Learning Cafe Unconference Sydney 2017

The Learning Cafe Unconference event is not like most conferences. It is focused on group discussions, not presentations and case studies. This is one of the reasons that the organiser Jeevan Joshi restricts numbers to the event: discussions don’t scale.

Powerful storytelling and workplace learning

An interview with professional storyteller Ben McEwing from Carben about storytelling as a tool in eLearning.

Developing a digital mindset for L&D: New ways of collaborating

Digital technologies have had a profound effect on how we communicate and collaborate with each other. In the first stage of the internet’s existence, email reduced the time it took to communicate and enabled us to do so with virtually anyone, wherever in the world they were.

Transmedia and Blended Learning

This is an interview with Mick Gwyther and Erin McCuskey from Yum Studio about the relationship between transmedia storytelling and blended learning.

Developing a digital mindset for L&D: Increasing interaction

This theme is closely related to the automation theme. As I was doing the research and thinking for this section I remembered there was a huge area of digital thinking that manifests itself in experiences such as computer games.